Remember Google Glasses? Well, Snapchat thinks it is a good idea to bring a similar concept and the company just started selling its Snapchat spectacles for $130, with a catch.

The catch is that you can only buy Snapchat spectacles from "Snapbots" that will travel around the USA selling the $130 device. Therefore, we are saying that most of you won’t be able to buy it.

The "Snapbots" are bright yellow ephemeral vending machines that will only stay in the area for 24 hours. The spectacles come in a few colors, they recharge in a case and they are meant to make memories from your perspective. If you press a button you can take a 10 second snap with the camera placed in the left eye corner. The right eye corner has circular shaped LED lights to show your friends what you are snapping. Both LEDs and Cameras are circled so it is easy to notice that these are no ordinary pervert glasses, they are pervert glasses where you can tell that they have a camera.

You will need a phone, iPhone 5 and later running iOS 8 and above, or Android devices running Android 4.3 and above with BLE and Wi-Fi Direct.

The website doesn’t really tell you how much storage you have on the spectacles but it looks like that the whole point is to be able to record short videos up to 10 seconds. We are not sure if it will work for longer videos, but we are quite confident that it will work for taking pictures.

Venice Beach was the first place to sell them, and they sold out in four hours. Since Google Glasses caused an uproar in bars and public places, raising peoples' concern that Glassholes (people wearing Google Glasses, Ed.) will be filming them, we can only imagine that people are not going to react well to Snapchap spectacles either. Give it a few days to start hearing the outrage and uproar.

Samsung has announced two new wearables — an update to its Gear Fit activity tracker and the IconX, a pair of wireless earbuds for runners.

The company has also explained why it is so interested in the fitness band market, saying that bands currently half of the wrist-worn device market so it is worthwhile following.

The Fit2 is designed for all-day wear and Samsung’s gone a long ways toward making it more comfortable. It is thinner than its earlier designs and has a curved 1.5-inch Super AMOLED display.

Samsung claims it can run four days on one charge. It has a built-in heart-rate monitor and GPS, so wearers can track their route even when not tethered to a smartphone. There’s also 4GB of built-in storage and can store music offline. Samsung is working with Spotify to offer playlists but offline caching will have to wait for future models.

There is auto multi-sport and sleep tracking which means you do not need to tap the start button before you do something new. It’ll work with phones running Android 4.4 and cost $179.

It is all good but the technology has been around for a while. But the same cannot be said for the the IconX which has a bit of innovation attached to it but also a lot of woe.

To have fully wireless earbuds you need separate radios and batteries for each ear and that hits battery life. Samsung says that the IconX can run for only an hour and a half when connected and playing music. As a result it has been positioned as a “workout-only” device.

But in that role they are really interesting. They come with built-in heart-rate monitoring and are capable of tracking distance and speed. They also come with a wireless charging case. The sound isn apparently pants, but then anyone who listens to compressed MP3s on earphone buds is not going to notice the difference.

The headphones have 4GB of storage, so you do not need to carry a phone with you. We still think that they are a bit pricey at $199. They will start shipping in Q3 of this year.

Now that everyone is realising that their super expensive Apple PCs can’t do VR, an outfit called Xotic PC is offering to sell a range of proper computers that can – although AMD fans might want to look the other way.

According to Digital Trends Xotic PC’s new VR range is based around Nvidia’s GeForce GTX VR Ready graphics tech and each can handle VR games in their 360-degree glory even when personalized at the base level.

The PCs have a spec based around an Intel Skylake i5-6500 CPU, an Nvidia GTX 970, 8GB of DDR4 RAM, and a 1TB hard drive – we assume that is the cheapest model as 8GB RAM is a bit small for the sort of money we are talking here.

CEO Justin Nolte told Digital Trends that his outfit was not a cookie-cutter PCs maker and it offers a a wide range of both performance and visual customisation options that gamers demand.

Yeah pretty much like a lot of PC retailers. The desktop versions are pricey too with cheapest, the Exodus Mini, starting at $1,429. Pricey even if you are used to wasting money on an top of the range Apple. The laptops Xotic is selling have a comedy battery life of “2+ hours” long.

Nolte said that Xotic’s VR Ready lineup is “future-proof” because the company is confident that the systems will be “immersing you in virtual worlds now and in the foreseeable future.”

True, an expensive high-tech PC costing $2,000 that runs VR should do all you need for about five years or so, unless there is some serious technology shift.

The first Moto 360 watch was a really desirable design. It was the first round Android Wear but it came with quite a few flaws. The new Moto 360 2015 is still missing a piece of screen but at least it has a better Snadragon 400 SoC powering it.

Last year, for some crazy reason, Motorola decided to use Texas Instruments' obsolete OMAP 3 chip to suck its ht battery dry. The new Moto 360 2015 has a Snapdragon 400 quad core, which drags Motorola kicking and screaming into the late 2014 smartwatch era. No one else uses anything better, so the Snapdragon 400 should do for now.

Motorola has two versions of the watch – a smaller 42mm and a bigger 46 mm “tire” designed watch. But both watches still miss a part of the screen. You won’t see this problem with the LG G watch round or LG Watch Urbane as they have a perfect circle design. Motorola should have used the completely round watch screen with a white watch face, as anything less bothers our sense of aesthetics too much.

We cannot imagine how this part went trough the QA as it really bothered us. It has ruined an otherwise great looking smartwatch.

The smaller 42mm version of the watch has a 1.37-inch 360 x 325 display, while the bigger 46mm model has a 1.56-inch display with a resolution of 360 x 330.

The Women's 42mm case requires a 16mm band. Men's model 42mm case requires 20mm band while the 46mm men's case requires a 22mm band. Motorola promises up to 1.5 days of mixed use with Ambient off with Men's 42mm and Women's 300mAh battery. With Ambient on you should expect a full day of use.

All of the models are IP67 dust and water resistant and support an optical heart rate monitor (PPG). Motorola is introducing its first Ambient light sensor, something that most available Android wear watches are missing.

The price is the main issue of this device. Lenovo-owned Motorola wants $299 for a standard watch. If you run it via Maker it will get to $349.99 for women's model or $399.99 for men's model. This price includes free shipping, free returns and a lifetime tech support.

If you order one of the stock models you can expect Motorola to deliver it on September 24. Moto maker will ship five days later September 29 and since it comes with a metal strap it will cost $50 more.

MediaTek Labs LinkIt ONE is a comprehensive developer board and we saw some real-world applications that are already available.

Have in mind that LinkIt ONE has been available only for a couple of quarters, and so far MediaTek and its partners managed to get some innovative projects to market.

One of these projects comes from Athentek, a start-up that focuses on security applications with smart location technologies. The company is behind the LinkIt ONE based solution called Circo, and this is a smart tracking wearable device for children.

The basic idea is rather simple, the Circo device uses most advanced location technology including GPS, AGPS, WiFi, and Cell ID to track your kids. The LinkIt ONE device enables connection to a cloud based application that can help you locate this device, and your offspring. The battery charge lasts a few days, the device measures 37x32x11 mm and weighs only 18 grams. It uses a MediaTek MT2502A with added MT5931 (802.11n platform 2.4GHz) + MT3332 (Multi-GNSS receiver ) chips for connectivity.

The device supports GSM 900/1800/850/1900 frequencies, GPS, AGPS, WiFI Cell ID and comes with a 320 mAh battery. Circo device is small enough so the children can wear it around neck, potentially even as bracelet. You can also put the device in kid's pockets or a school bag.

The positioning data is sent to a secure could and the data is available via a smartphone app. The app supports a social chat room, activity history, geo fencing and real-time positioning.

We don't know the price of the device, as it will take a few more month to polish and get to market, but it sounds like a good idea. One thing that comes to mind - a lot of kids have mobile phones and that the you can have a similar functionality with a mobile phone. The downside of using phones to track kids is that children can drain the battery really fast, and with a dead battery you won't be able to track them. Since the location is stored in a secure cloud, nasty people should not be able to access the tracking data.

We would like to see a similar device inside our language, as frequent travellers usually experience lost luggage at one time or another. Maybe we just gave Athentek a potential idea how to grow their business horizontally, as we can see a lot of interest if the price is right. We will keep our eyes on this interesting device.

HTC has announced its first wearable, and it is not a smartwatch. The device is called HTC Grip and as you can imagine it is a smartband.

The rubbery fitness band has a curved 1.8-inch 32x160 PMOLED display and looks nice with its green and back design. Peter Chou, the CEO of HTC, didn’t spend that much time talking about the band. He told us that this is the first product coming from the previously announced cooperation with Under Armour and that both companies can get access to 130 million users that the company picked up with acquisition of Myfitnesspal.

HTC Grip can track walking, gym sessions, cycling, running and other activities, with GPS and four other sensors that were not officially named. The GPS will let you track your activities like running in the wild, even without your phone. We expect that one of the sensors is an accelerometer. The smart fitness band can track your workouts and your sleep, connect to social networks or use the Under Armour Record feature. You can challenge 20 of your friends and you will be able to track your progress with your Android or iOS smartphone.

You can receive call notification, view and respond to messages, or just skip to next song you are listening. It is IP57 waterproof, which means it should hold for up to being submersed in 1 meter of water for 30 minutes.

The battery life in sport mode is an underwhelming 5 hours with GPS on, but HTC claims that this is long enough for a marathon run. We just got official word on the specification of the Grip. It comes in three sizes, Small: 51.9 x 68.2 x 22.5 mm inner circumference: 145.54 mm, Medium: 60.98 x 74.57 x 22.5 mm inner circumference: 169.7 6 mm and Large: 68.92 x 85.24 x 22.5 mm Inner circumference: 199.51 mm.

The PMOLED display is 1.8 inches across, with 32x160 resolution, and it supports capacitive touch. It runs RTOS and STMicroelectronics STM32L151QDH6 processor. This is al ultra-low power ARM Cortex M3 processor with a 32MHz CPU, USB and 384Kbyte flash support.

The HTC Grip comes with 15MB flash, 8MB SRAM and 100mAh rechargeable battery. The company states that the battery should last 2.5 days of normal use or 5 hours w/GPS activated. The Grip uses Bluetooth 3.0 or 4.0 for connectivity and USB for charging.

The device has a Sensor Hub (STM32F411), G-sensor, Gyro, Compass, GPS and Light sensor and it comes with Vibration notifications, as well as Shock Resistant (compliant with MIL-STD-810G 516.6 Procedure I, IV).

The HTC Grip looks much like the Nike Fuel band, but it also has similarities to the Razr Nabu. It looks very similar to the Nabu, with an exception that the HTC Grip has a larger screen. HTC hopes that the US audience will be buying this product for a saucy $199, which is way more than FitBit or Jawbone. We will see if this one will be a success for HTC.

Apple is going to change the wearable landscape forever at its upcoming event, scheduled for March 9th 2015.

Here at Fudzilla we expected to see the Apple Watch in retail by April, but it looks like Apple will reveal the new device and more details on Monday, March 9th, and probably start selling watches shortly thereafter.

Analysts believe Apple can sell millions of these watches in the first year of sales, and the funny effect will happen one more time - Android Wear and other smartwatches will benefit from the Apple Watch too. We saw this happening with Apple Pay, as Google Wallet spending spiked after Apple started rolling out Apple Pay.

The event tagline is "Spring Forward" and the company's cheapest aluminium Sport watch model is expected to debut at $350. There will be much more expensive models, too, depending on the strao and overall cool factor. This will once again change everything. It happened in 2007 with the iPhone, then with the iPad, and there is a good chance that Apple Watch will be a success despite its obvious flaws. Just give it some time.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has already revealed that you should be able to buy one of these watches in April. Some rumours suggest Apple might introduce a new MacBook Air design (5th generation Core Broadwell-based probably) and a revamped Beats Music streaming service

The Internet of Things, or IoT in geek parlance, is a big deal. Intel hopes to buy and craft its way into this niche, as it missed the smartphone trend.

Intel said repeatedly that it doesn’t want to miss the next wave. So far, the Internet of Things can be described as the Internet of NoThings, but many outfits are trying to carve out a market for themselves.

Under Armour, the company famous for its fitness clothing, is massively buying its way into fitness tracking applications. This Baltimore-based sport outfitter paid $85 million for the Endomondo app for Android, iOS, Windows Phone and BlackBerry. This app keeps track of data related to running, walking, cycling and other distance sports. This oddly named app works well with wearables from Fitbit, Garmin, Jabra and probably some others we don’t know about. The acquisition was announced during the company's Q4 earnings conference call.

This was s small bite for Under Armour, as the company now announced that is snapped much bigger and wealthier player MyFitnessPal for $475 million. MyFitnessPal tells you how and what to eat in other to become or stay slim. It is the application that can keep track on your calories and help you lose weight. It just told me that if I eat exacly as it tells me I will lose 5KG / 10 pounds by March 12th.

The value is in the user base, as there are a total of 80 million registered users, while the smaller Endomondo has some 20 million.

The company is really serious about being one of the leaders in IoT and Software of Things market, as it already announced that it plans to make some connected fitness device with HTC. We still lack details about this collaboration, but Under Armour’s team of designers, sports scientists and athletes are working closely with HTC’s Connected Products business unit, as well as its design and engineering teams, to ensure the shared efforts will meet the highest expectations of athletes everywhere. We will see what comes out from this, maybe as early as the March 1st HTC press conference.

We have to admit that we still remain puzzled, as Nike dropped out of this wearable IoT market and with Apple about the release the Apple Watch, having apps to work with it kind of makes sense. We will see how this acquisition plays out for this fancy track shoe and T-shirt outfit, no pun intended.

The western hemisphere faces with a constant first-world problem of having too many plastic cards.

An average person has at least one credit and one debit card, along with multiple loyalty and membership cards. These range from airlines loyalty cards, to convenience and grocery store cards, all the way to the Starbucks card.

Apple is trying to help, as you can store your card data in iOS 8, but you cannot do that with debit or credit card. If you want to use Apple Pay you are much more limited than with an actual physical card.

A company called SWYP came with a neat solution. It is a digital card with a small display that will read and store your credit, debit, loyalty card or gift card details, and let you use it.

This single plastic card can replace dozen others cards and the company promise that the card is secure. If the SWYP card goes out of range of your phone, it will automatically lock. This is a nice feature. The card will work without a phone via custom secure pin too.

The FAQ solved one of the questions we had in our mind. From what we saw from the introduction video, it seemed that you can take other persons credit card and save the data for your card. Well, these guys are not that naïve as the SWYP card works only with cards that have the same name as the SWYP account.

There are three buttons and a display at the card and you will use the buttons to chose the card you want to use and it will show the card details at the display. You can attach receipts for your business expenses.

The card looks interesting and it will ship in Fall 2015 this year to US residents only. The early birds will be able to buy it for $49+ shipping, while the regular retail price will end up at $99.

We have to admit, we like the idea and the price seems to be right. This might be one of the cool ultralight IoT/wearable devices that makes sense. We don't know if you will have to change the card on a regular basis, and if so, how will this work.

Android Wear is an interesting operating system and Motorola got a lot of positive press when it announced and launched the Moto 360 watch. Currently the hottest Android Watch to have is LG G Watch R, as this round smartwatch has a very nice looking exterior and brains to match.

Six months to cross 100,000 mark

We have been tracking the number of Android Wear installs since the platform announcement in late June 2014. Back in July Android Wear landed on 10,000+ devices, and have in mind that you need one in order to connect your watch. In August the number grew to 50-100k installs and in late November it went to 100 to 500k installs.

Currently more than 100,000 people have this application and we can guarantee that not everyone has a smartwatch to go along with it. Some people just like to see the app before they grab a watch - we did too.

The Android Wear platform has been on the market since June 25th and so far it has failed to attract a big crowd, or should we say millions of consumers. The original LG G Watch is now selling as low as €137.99 in Germany and this is already about 30 percent less than the original €199 launch price. You simply don’t cut the price so drastically if a product is selling well. The round version LG G Watch R sells for €259 at press time, but to be honest it looks a lot more appealing than its predecessor.

Apple may turn things around

We strongly believe that the wearable market needs Apple, thanks to its ability to reinvent existing concepts and get millions of Apple users on board. We are sure that Apple will sell millions of watches next year and some analysts expect the company to hit the 10 million mark, which would dwarf the current number of Android Wear devices. It is becoming apparent that Google partners will fail to sell even half a million units this year, including the holiday season. Android Wear is missing a bunch of features to be really useful, but it is a nice little gadget to have.

Apple showed off the Apple Watch a while ago, but it will launch when its software and hardware are ready. Google should do the same thing as Android Wear feels like Android 1.0 back in 2008. It will get better, but it will need a lot of time. Fortunately for Google, if the latest designs like the Asus ZenWatch, LG G Watch R and Moto 360 are anything to go by, the quality of Android Wear hardware, and perhaps more importantly industrial design, is getting better.